The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-22
FIFTY POUNDS A HEAD.
That j. The Amount or ~.
gar Consumed by
The Country.
WHO I~n'tGcttinu IIisSupr,,.-I.tttt,..,
The sweet STUN prndu,.d am
nu" own >oiI--Dr. Thnrnc
T"Its all About IL.


ing with n good deal cf interest Tor
IT, experiments to be made on Gov-
ornor Waruoth's sugar plantation.
IN Louisiana, this season. | wa
talking with Dr.. 1aorne. who rep
re'ents here the sugar Interests oil
the north and east, about the refining
interests. ! found him much inter.
ested in the experiment., about to be-
made, and hopeful AS to the results.
at looks to me" he said, "s- though |
these experiments ought to do
good deal for legitimate sugar pro.
duction in this country"
Haven't they been valuable al.
ready in their bearing on the produc.
ton OF sugar from sorghum"
Not especially -. The sorghum
sugar experiment has no: been sue /
yes. yet, and nobody can say whether |
il viii be or not. But there isno oc- !
casion, any way, to worry about the |
production sugar from sorghum ID
this country, If the production in the
south eau be increased and at the
same time chcapcncd az much a, l.
claimed by the process 10 be. used in
the experiments 20 bc.madc ihi-. sea
son in louisiana"
"Why do YOU shy that, Or. Thornc.
\ on don't mean to say that tn.
south II ever going 20 raise all ,Ecpu
gar that this country requires, do
YOU"
II mean that it can IL 1t wants to.
There IL enough sugar land and eli
mate On the gnli border, in Florida.
Alabama, Louisiana, MissIssippi and
Texas to produce all the sugar that
the people of this country consume.
even if they are the greatest sugar
eaters III the world
The greatest sugar eaters.in the
worldp
ayes, the people of this country
consume more sugar per head per
annum than those of any country or
nation in the world. The Americans
have sweet tooth"
"W ut ~ the average consumption
OF sugar per capita IN TINS country
nov, DOCTOR"
"About fifty pounds per head
"And still increasing
AVE-. still increasing The people
OF this country pay nore for their
sugar to- day than tor their hour
Tins may seem "a strange assertion,
but tits "A fact capable OF statistical
standardization mentioned the fact
to senator Frye last year, auu hc
doubted the accuracy of my Informs
iiuu. so he set TO work TO ,nvcstl
gate IL through some of his manu-
lacluring constituents who employ cd
good many people and kept very
accurate accounts, ard he found that
was right, The sugar of our poo
pie costs from b to 10 per cent. mere
than their Hour"
"And "a very large share OF il comes
now from abroad, does il nOtt'
"lcs. Ofthe /, 100000 tons of su.
gar consumed III the 'nitcd States
100000 Is produced abroad and lOO,-
Ont home. Nct believe that the
entire sugar supply tor this country
might be produced in the southern
state, should the new methods now
being tested prove of such value "
10 warrant the effort. by
that mean to say
that fsugar can be made in the sOut'
chcaply enough to make its produc
ton profitable in competition with
The sugar of Cuba, and the other
sugar producing spots OF the world,
there is laud and soil and climat,
there to produce oil TINT we want
without worrying oursclvcs about
sorghum or beet sugar, both of which
may be produced In This country Dut
not in very profitable way
"lIow Is the process going a.
cheaper the sugar produclion:'
"First, by giving an increase in
Weld per acre. 1t is believed hy
many that it may double the yield OF
sugar per acre. Second, by permit
ting Tho use of the refuse of the cane
after the Juice is extracted, for fuel
lfthi, can be accomplished the cost O
manufacture will be greatly reduced
They do this IN the sandwich ls.nud'
constantly. blil nearly all thor sugar
with the cane after the juice ha
been sque 2Cd out. Ex-Governor
Warmolh. who has the finest sugal
plantation in the south, and is making
/. constant study of the subject ton
me he believes advantages of The new
proces. will be sufficient to pay fol
the new machinery required hy the
increased profits of the first season
II the method does what be thinks d
CAS-, why, there's no telling what /
may accomplish tor the sugar indus
try otthis country
"ltncgds something TO brighton +
up. too, doesn't il, doctor